Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Roy Huntington, editor of our sister magazine, American Handgunner, shares this short, but on-target letter from one of his “seasoned” readers and one of his youngest. The title of the e-mail: Grandpa Teaches Them Young. Roy, I just thought you would like to see that out here we teach them young and we teach them right. Kelly Flint Via: americanhandgunner.com Teaching Them Right I think Massad Ayoob is just being an apologist for the ammunition industry (Lethal Force, “Explaining Today’s Ammo Prices To Customers,” Dec. 2007). Yes, the price of lead has gone up slightly. The dollar has taken a hit and the auto industry is building more lead-acid batteries. But not so much that one would expect all the manufacturers to increase the price of ammo as much as it has. In one fell swoop both our local WalMart and Dick’s Sporting Goods raised the prices of their Remington and Winchester shotshells by over 40 percent. This smells of something other than ordinary inflation or “increased demand,” as Mr. Ayoob puts it. I shoot skeet and trap and sporting clays weekly. This is not a once-a-year usage. This impacts my hobby big time. Guns have not gone up 40 percent. Cars have not gone up 40 percent. Food has not gone up 40 percent. Only gasoline has gone up as much. And something is amiss in the gasoline business, too! Not Happy Please don’t tell me I should be happy with the “relative bargain” I am getting today. I work in non-union manufacturing. My salary today is no higher than it was in 1988. And benefits have gone down. No argument you present will convince me to be happy with a 42-percent increase in ammo costs. Jim C. Via: russ@shootingindustry.com No one is happy with the increase in ammunition, but it seems reasonable to explain what is driving the jump in ammo prices. Four years ago, copper sold for around 20 cents a pound. In the fall of 2007, it was around $3.30 a pound. During the same time, lead jumped from around 40 cents a pound to $1.80 a pound. 9 E-mail the Editor russ@shootingindustry.com 6 APRIL 2008 Circle No. 211 on Inquiry Card www.shootingindustry.com